Is this feature flag supported?

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Hello Community!

This feature flag is support in syft? If then, which version is working?
I am using latest version, 1.22.0 but it recognized unknown flag.

syft --add-packages-image-id

thank you

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Hi @Luke_Parker, if you run syft --help it will show you all the flags available. This is from 1.22.0:

$ syft --help
...

Flags:
      --base-path string                          base directory for scanning, no links will be followed above this directory, and all paths will be reported relative to this directory
  -c, --config stringArray                        syft configuration file(s) to use
      --enrich stringArray                        enable package data enrichment from local and online sources (options: all, golang, java, javascript)
      --exclude stringArray                       exclude paths from being scanned using a glob expression
      --file string                               file to write the default report output to (default is STDOUT) (DEPRECATED: use: --output FORMAT=PATH)
      --from stringArray                          specify the source behavior to use (e.g. docker, registry, oci-dir, ...)
  -h, --help                                      help for syft
  -o, --output stringArray                        report output format (<format>=<file> to output to a file), formats=[cyclonedx-json cyclonedx-xml github-json spdx-json spdx-tag-value syft-json syft-table syft-text template] (default [syft-table])
      --override-default-catalogers stringArray   set the base set of catalogers to use (defaults to 'image' or 'directory' depending on the scan source)
      --parallelism int                           number of cataloger workers to run in parallel
      --platform string                           an optional platform specifier for container image sources (e.g. 'linux/arm64', 'linux/arm64/v8', 'arm64', 'linux')
      --profile stringArray                       configuration profiles to use
  -q, --quiet                                     suppress all logging output
  -s, --scope string                              selection of layers to catalog, options=[squashed all-layers] (default "squashed")
      --select-catalogers stringArray             add, remove, and filter the catalogers to be used
      --source-name string                        set the name of the target being analyzed
      --source-version string                     set the version of the target being analyzed
  -t, --template string                           specify the path to a Go template file
  -v, --verbose count                             increase verbosity (-v = info, -vv = debug)
      --version                                   version for syft

Use "syft [command] --help" for more information about a command.

What do you expect --add-packages-image-id to do?